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discovery of P. uliginosa in Scotland, by those acute botanists, the 

 Backhouses, as recorded in a late number of the ' Phytologist,' has 

 induced Mr. Babington to revise and amend the characters he had 

 previously assigned to the British species, or forms, of Polygala. The 

 following are the characters which Mr. B. proposes : — 

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"1. P. vulgaris (Linn.) ; leaves scattered, lower leaves smaller ob- 

 long, upper leaves lanceolate, wings of the calyx obovate 

 mucronate their nerves branched the lateral looping with a 

 branch of the central nerve, capsule obcordate, lobes of the 

 arillus unequal, lateral bracts shorter than the pedicels. 

 " P. vulgaris, auctorum. 



" &. depressa ; lower leaves crowded and often opposite but small, 

 stem long wiry prostrate, racemes ultimately lateral. 

 " P. vulgaris*depressa, Fries, Mani. ii. 41. 



" P. depi-essa, ' WendS ex Koch, Sijn. ed. 2, 99 ; Coss. et Germ. 

 FL Par. 56, t. 8 ; Bromf. in Phytol. ii. 966 ; Gren. et Godr. 

 Fl. Fr. i. 196. 

 « P. serpyllacea, ' Weihe ' ex Sond. FL Hamb. 388. 



" y. oxyptera ; flowers smaller, fruit broader than the wings of the 

 calyx. 

 " P. oxyptera, Reich. Iconog. i. f. 46 ! 

 " P. multicaulis, Tausch ! 



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P. calcarea (Schultz) ; leaves chiefly in an irregular terminal 

 tuft large obovate obtuse, leaves on the flower-shoot smaller 

 lanceolate, wings of the calyx oblong their nerves branched the 

 lateral looping with a branch from near the middle of the cen- 

 tral nerve, capsule oblong obcordate, lobes of the arillus une- 

 qual, lateral bracts shorter than the pedicels. 



" P. calcarea, Schultz in Bot. Zeit. (1837) 752, et ' Exsic. ii. 15 ;' 



Koch, Syn. ed. 2, 100 ; Bab. Man. 39 ; Gren. et Godr. FL 



Fr. i. 196 ! ; Walp. Rep. i. 232. 

 " P. amara, Reich. FL excurs. 350, et Fl. exsic. 749 ! ; Eng. Bot. 



t. 2764! 

 " P. amarella, Reich. Iconog. i. f. 43, 44 ; Coss. et Germ. Fl. Par. 



56, t. 7. 



